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First Principles: We Cannot Learn From One Another Until We Stop Shouting At One Another, Until We Speak Quietly Enough So That Our Words Can Be Heard

“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot … Continue reading

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A Memory of Losses

A Memory of Lossesby Michael DoyleEven a cursory read of the Hadith findsIt is enjoined to treat others kindTo never kill unless it is necessaryThe death of even one requires a necessityTo save even one is to save all of … Continue reading

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Through the Son

Through the Sonby Michael DoyleThere’s something in my attitudeIt’s heard in my love and gratitudeOn my knees, I am prayingOn my lips, I am sayingHallelujah, for all my healingThere is grace in all I’m feelingHere in all my daysI keep … Continue reading

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Through Fevered Eyes

Through Fevered Eyesby Michael DoyleHeard even from the criminally rejectedComes the kindness otherwise neglectedNeglected by those who have more than neededAll of the many lessons too seldom heededHelping the poor brings about true prosperityThe type of prosperity of an unknown … Continue reading

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That We’ve Received

That We’ve Receivedby Michael DoyleOur praise shakes the groundEarth and Heaven chased aroundWild and free as the winds blowingWe raise this love before the All-KnowingWorking His wonders before our eyesTo deliver His promises without surpriseGiving all the glory to His … Continue reading

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We Call For the Water

We Call For the Waterby Michael DoyleThe outside world focuses on the forgivingAt best, if at all, and not the givingAs we link arms serving on behalf of the joyFrom day one, this was God’s intention to deployAs babe was … Continue reading

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First Principles: There Is Not A Single Instance In History In Which Civil Liberty Was Lost, and Religious Liberty Preserved Entire

“There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.” – John Witherspoon, … Continue reading

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On the Third Day

On the Third Dayby Michael DoyleThe Holy Spirit brings us powerBut we bring tenderness to this hourEaster then is the pinnacle of gloryAs we tell the tale of the resurrection storyGod is the business of setting things rightHe paid for … Continue reading

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First Principles: There Is Not A Single Instance In History In Which Civil Liberty Was Lost, and Religious Liberty Preserved Entire

“There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.” – John Witherspoon, … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Warp Speed Project Appears To Be A Dramatic Success

“The Warp Speed project appears to be a dramatic success. I pray that it will be. Although I’ve been a frequent critic of this administration, I want to give them credit for organizing this effectively, and delivering a vaccine in … Continue reading

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